by Royer Advisors | Dec 11, 2024 | Court Rulings, Financial Planning, Valuations
Financial experts are often needed in commercial litigation cases. They could be used to value a business, figure out economic damages, or to look into fraud allegations. In these cases, the quality of the numeric data that is available to the expert is critical,...
by Royer Advisors | Dec 11, 2024 | Valuations
Lane v. Lampkin, 2014 Miss. App. LEXIS 497 (Sept. 16, 2014) How do you assess damages in a situation in which one of two equal shareholders died and the surviving partner feels compelled to open a new company that does the same work as the original company? A divided...
by Royer Advisors | Dec 11, 2024 | Court Rulings, Valuations
Valuation experts receive a lot of advice on how to guard against an attack from the opposing side, but sometimes an attack can come from the expert’s own client. A recent case shows how an appraiser who sued a client over unpaid fees was put on the defensive. Costly...
by Royer Advisors | Dec 11, 2024 | Court Rulings, Valuations
In 1993, the Supreme Court positioned judges as “gatekeepers” against “junk science” in Daubert v. Merrell Pharmaceutical, Inc. (509 U.S, 579). Then, in 1999, Kumho Tire Company v. Carmichael (526 U.S. 137) extended the scope of Daubert beyond...
by Royer Advisors | Dec 11, 2024 | Valuations
Bank of America, N.A. v. Veluchamy (In re Veluchamy), 2014 Bankr. LEXIS 5106 (Dec. 18, 2014) A noteworthy discussion involving reputed valuation experts over how to value stock in one of the defendants’ S corporations lies buried in a bankruptcy case that features...
by Royer Advisors | Dec 11, 2024 | Court Rulings, Valuations
Wisniewski v. Walsh, 2013 N.J. Super. Unpub. LEXIS 724 (April 2, 2013) Children learn that bad behavior has consequences. An appellate court recently taught a similar lesson to a troublemaking shareholder whose doings forced a buyout. Three siblings each owned a...
